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Dermot

Dermot Report 11 Sep 2016 20:05

Exeter parents were stunned not long ago following the news that Devon County Council was to cut school bus services in the city. Hundreds of children could be left without transport & parents backed by teachers were up in arms.

One concerned mother complained that her 10 year-old son would have to walk nearly two miles if his bus provision was withdrawn & she was anxious about his safety. She also moaned to the Head teacher that her young fellow still found it hard to write his own name. Nothing to do with dyslexia.

Who to blame? Make up your own mind!

Tawny

Tawny Report 11 Sep 2016 19:55

As I live in Scotland I was 5 when I started school but I don't ever remember refusing to eat anything I was given and my parents made sure I could use cutlery.

Researching:
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 11 Sep 2016 19:31

I used to be a dinner nanny at our local school and we had one young boy who started having school dinners but when he sat down to eat he didn't touch his food.

It turns out that he was waiting for someone to feed him as that is what his mother did. The dinner nannies told him that we would cut up his food for him for the first week but he had to eat it himself and practice cutting up his own food at home. He soon learned but you would think his mother would have the sense to know that he would have to fend for himself at school.

Kath. x

Tawny

Tawny Report 11 Sep 2016 19:25

I have just started watching a programme on Channel 5 called First Day At Big School. It concerns a group of 4 year olds starting school for the first time. One mother has stated she doesn't know how her little darling will cope as said child likes mum to pick the breadcrumbs off the chicken nuggets. Whatever happened to eating what you were given without complaint?

Researching:
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled. Nor will we proceed with force against him except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.